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8/1/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.30 Sultan of Johore to lunch & Lord & Lady Desborough, Mr & Mrs Eden, Lady Forbes. 5.0 Archbishop of Canterbury. ? 5.30 Sir W. Citrine ? Dinner Pakenham-Walsh, P.J.C.

8/2/1940 12.30 Cabinet 1.30 Cardinal Huntley, Lord & Lady Lloyd, Lord & Lady W.S. Morrison 5.0 Food Meeting

8/3/1940 Lunch - Gen de Gaulle, Gen Shear Major Ro[illegible] Dinner - Lord Gorst, Sir Hugh Dowding, Prof. Linderman, Capt. Sandys

8/5/1940 11.30. Cabinet C. 1.30 Signature of Polish Agreet. Lunch - Gen. Sikorski. Mais Zalcoki. Capt. Cazalck. Lord Halifax 4.45 Lord Halifax 5.15. Sir H. Wil[[ilegible]] 6.0 Sir A. Sinclair 10.30 Sir. R. Keyes

8/6/1940 10.3 a.m. Defense Committee (Supply) 12. {[blacked out]] Cabinet 1.30 L(?) Deakin to lunch (/).30 speaker - H. Of. c. 4. I.S.L. {[faint pencil]] 5.0 Gen. S. E. Crankshaw (?) pm ? To Chartwell 6.30 King 7.0 Defence C (Supply) 7.45 . . 8.0 Lord Beaverbrook

8/7/1940 9 A.M. Start from Downing St. 7.20 P. M. Arrive back H. {[faint pencil]] 10.30 Genl de Gaulle 11.0 C.O.S. 7 Ismay

8/8/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.30 Dr Benes to lunch 5.0 strikeout Gen Wavell

8/9/1940 12.30 Cabinet Chequers Dine & Sleep: Sir J Dill, Mr Eden, General Wavell

8/10/1940 Chequers Dine & Sleep: General Finlayson, General Pownell, Colonel Jacob

8/11/1940 Chequers Dine. LD Beaverbrook Dine and Sleep: M. Bevin

8/12/1940 12.30 Cabinet 1.30 Mr Whitelaw Reid, G.O.C. London District 2.45 Lord President 5.30 Meeting of Ministers 10.0 Sir J. Dill, Mr. Eden, Generall Wavell, Gen Ismay

8/13/1940 10.15 Defence (Training of Pilots) 12.00 Cabinet Lunch Buckingham Palace To Lunch Mr Whitelaw Reid 6.00 5.30 Mr Eden CIGS, General Wavell 7.00 HM 7.45 1st Lord

8/14/1940 10.30 [b. ?] c. (op) 11.30 Ch. Whip 11.45 Ld Caldecote 12.15 Ld Halifax [duplicated] 12.30 Cabinet 4.30 American Ambassador 4.50 strikeout Sir J. Anderson 5.0 Admiralty War Room 6.30 Cabinet 9.30 Ld Halifax & Ld Caldecote

8/15/1940 12.00 Cabinet 5.00 5.30 Lord Beaverbrook, Mr Bevin, Mr Morrison, Mr Alexander

8/16/1940 10.10 Sir A Sinclair 12.00 Mr Morrison, Dr Crowe 12.30 Cabinet To Lunch Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, Sir J & Lady Hawkey 2.40 AM review [illegible] 4.30 5.00 Mr Eden, CIGS, General Ismay Lord Lloyd to Dine & Sleep

8/17/1940 Air Marshall Pontac dine sleep Sir Alan Brooke " " & sleep [illegible] & Mrs Sandys " "

8/18/1940 Lunch - Ld & Lady Halifax, Gen. de Gaulle, Gen Spears, Major Morton. Lunch - Ld & Lady [Fesborough ?] [illegible] Cancelled

8/19/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.30 Mr. Tom Johnston to lunch 5.30. Chancellor of Exchequer. { Sir K. Wood { Mr. Eden to dine

8/20/1940 11:45 Cabinet 12:30 Westminster Abbey (Memorial [illegible] Service-Australian Minister)

8/21/1940 12.30 Cabinet Lord Beaverbrook to lunch 4.30 Sir A Sinclair

8/23/1940 10.0 RAF Pilots Meeting 11.30 Cabinet 4.45 Sir Walter Citrine 5.0 Lord Hore Belisha 5.30 Lord [illegible]

8/26/1940 12 30 Cabinet 1.30 Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Dawson, Sir [illegible] w Lunch 5.30 Mr. Morrison 6.30 Belgian Ministers 10.0 I of J, in Air & A/M [Courtenay?]

8/27/1940 12.0 Sir A. Sinclair 12.30 [illegible] 5.0. The King 6.0 Col. Gretton 6.30. L.P.S. w. Duff Cooper, Mr. Pick.

8/28/1940 10:30 Leave. 6:00 Admiral Cunningham, Sen Frasier

8/29/1940 11:30 Chans of Exchequer 12 Cabinet 1:30 Gen De Gaulle, Gen Shearer, Adm, Cunningham, Gen India, Major Morton, 15 lunch 5:00 Cabinet 6 Cap. Margesson, 6:15 American Amb, 6:#0 Lord Swinton

8/30/1940 11:30 Cabinet 1:30 C.L.G.S. (lunch) 5:15 Sir A Sinclair 5:45 Genl Barker

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